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Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.

Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter’s new booklet takes aim at grotesque falsehoods about Israel—crucial for “singing to the choir.”
The left grows ill when it gets a taste of its own medicine. In this case, the culprit is a hilarious clip that’s going viral, inducing incurable pearl-clutching.
Jews shouldn’t need to treat intellectual honesty as heroism. Nor does it behoove us to grab any morsel of sympathy with the hunger of a hostage.
Institutional mistrust and mandate-maneuvering are obfuscating Israel’s electoral picture.
“Our fighter either wins or is martyred,” said the IRGC spokesman. “Martyrdom is happiness for him. In such a situation, our forces do not falter.”
Israelis with contradictory views on crucial matters are never going to cease battling one another ideologically, and no constellation of musical chairs in the Knesset is going to alter that reality.
Ephraim Sneh may be a Knesset has-been, but his attitude isn’t the least bit passé in certain snobbish circles.
When Hezbollah sets the agenda, talks between Israel and Lebanon in Washington are pointless.